The Importance of Community Based Art Centres

Bear ups articles include testimony from ex employees and artists including win prize winner Junckera Ken that practices similar to those depicted in the video are common. If this is true then O'Mira has been central to the movement as well. Back in 2003 Brisbane based artist Richard Bell won the prestigious National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award with a text painting that read Aboriginal art it's a white thing. The same authenticity myth that Bell was critiquing prevails today. Artists such as young too often accept the implicit or explicit edicts of the far off market through white intermediaries for a simple reason. Although they may have significant cultural power their economic power is limited. In economically depressed